Thread: ATTN: Musicians of Casual Discourse

As I put forth previously, the point of this is not a contest, it is an exercise in composition and a demonstration of your ability with your instrument. As was said before, if you begin with lenient rules, and then slowly tighten them, people will only quit then. This is not a competition in the sense that you believe. I think you're overestimating the requirements of the whole thing. We're not imposing strict limits and minimums, as I said in previous posts, we're only asking people to compose a short song with no more than 5 parts. Those are the only restricions and minimums. Playing covers would not be a demonstration of one's ability to compose, and some people may not even have the ability to play the cover, some people may just have a bass, some people may just have a keyboard, there is no way you can ask someone to do a cover without the proper equipment to do so. However, with the free composition software that I pointed out, one can compose an entire song in the course of half an hour, it will be much easier than recording ones self play a few different parts.

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I'm not trying to be overzealous, forceful or any other synonyms you can think of. I'm not attempting to be an ass or stubborn or anything similar. I'm merely trying to point out that we're not imposing strict rules and requirements like you seem to think. I don't think effingawesome and my idea is better simply because I was part of building it, but because I just believe it's a better idea. If you ask someone to cover a whole song with simply a bass, their voice, and an online drum machine, people are going to be iffy about it because they just might not be able to do it. However, compositions are much more simple because with the software I presented, you have as many and any instruments that you could want at your fingertips, all it takes is a little work to do it. I can almost guarantee that people will be more willing to do that then try and figure out how to cover a whole song with mediocre recording equipment and programs and no experience recording, producing, mixing or mastering any kind of music.